BACKGROUND AND AIM: The aim of this case report is to present an approach used to correct severe rotation of anterior maxillary teeth in a pre-adolescent boy.CASE REPORT: The patient was an 8-year-old boy in the mixed dentition stage and severe rotation of upper right central incisor. Whip appliance was consisted of a removable plate, a cantilever spring and a bonded molar tube on rotated tooth...

CASE REPORT A 37–years old male patient of Indian origin was referred to the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics for treatment of carious teeth. An intraoral examination revealed an Angle’s Class I molar relation with a well aligned upper and a lower arch. Full complement of permanent teeth was present. Generalized dental fluorosis was seen in teeth of both arches. Though the t...

A talon cusp is a relatively rare dental developmental anomaly characterized by the presence of accessory cusp-like structure projecting from the cingulum area or cementoenamel junction. It is frequently found on the palatal surface of the maxillary anterior teeth in the permanent dentition. The etiology is controversial, but it is suggested that this condition has a multifactorial cause, inclu...

PURPOSE This case report discusses the effect of a root submergence technique on preserving the periodontal tissue at the pontic site of fixed dental prostheses in the maxillary anterior aesthetic zone. METHODS Teeth with less than ideal structural support for fixed retainer abutments were decoronated at the crestal bone level. After soft tissue closure, the final fixed dental prostheses were...

Introduction: When natural teeth lost, it becomes difficult to arrange the teeth in their original position in the complete denture. Variety of guides has been suggested for arrangement of artificial teeth. Incisive papilla is recognized as an important landmark to locate the maxillary anterior teeth position in complete denture fabrication. The objective of this study was to find the relation ...

Dens in dente ve füzyon iyi bilinen ve iyi tanımlanmış dental anomaliler olmasına rağmen süpernumere dişlerde nadiren görülürler. Füzyon özellikle maksiller anterior dişlerde oluştuğunda estetik problem yaratır. Bu makalede, süpernumere iki anterior dişte nadir görünen dens in dente ve füzyonun birlikte görüldüğü bir olgu rapor edilmiştir. Although dens in dente and fusion are well-known and we...

The population affected by dental erosion due to bulimia is generally very young. This population group has a high aesthetic requirement; the dentition in these patients is severely damaged, especially in the anterior maxillary quadrant. In terms of treatment, it is still controversial whether an adhesive rehabilitation is preferable to a longer-lasting but more aggressive conventional treatmen...

Caries in very young children known as early childhood caries may be defined according to the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry as “the presence of one or more decayed, missing (due to caries), or filled tooth surfaces in any primary tooth in a child 71 months of age or younger” (1,2). Early Childhood Caries (ECC) is a complex disease, which involves maxillary primary incisors within a mo...

introduction: comparison of the relationships and distance between maxillary root tips and   the maxillary sinus floor using oral panoramic in the dolichocephalic and brachycephalic compared to mesocephalic individuals. methods: oral panoramic images from 300 individuals were analyzed and the relationships and distance between the maxillary root tips and the sinus floor was assessed by qualitat...